Cooper City Bicycles Stolen

January 13, 1985

Three Cooper City residents reported bicycles stolen from their homes last week.

On Tuesday, Anthony Budetti, 17, of the 10200 block of Southwest 49th Place, told police his Schwinn Letour 10-speed worth $300 was stolen from the garage at his home. The garage door was open at the time, Budetti told police.

Jan DiFabio, 39, of the 10300 block of Southwest 51st Street, told police an MCS Spider bicycle worth $210 was stolen from the outside wall of her home Thursday.

DAVIE CAMPING GEAR STOLEN

Sally Shipman, 29, of the 5100 block of Southwest 64th Avenue, told police Thursday that someone broke into a storage room in her apartment building a few days earlier and stole assorted camping gear worth $1,800.

PLANTATION STORE HOLDUP

A man who entered the Li`l General Store in the 4400 block of Peters Road first said he wanted to buy coffee. Then he held up the store`s clerk.

The clerk, Lana Lee Wilburn, 43, said the man entered the store about 11:30 a.m. Jan. 4 and asked if she sold coffee.

Wilburn told police that she replied ``yes`` and walked to the coffee pot, ready to pour some. The man came up behind her and grabbed her neck and told her ``I don`t want any coffee. I want what`s in the register,`` Wilburn reported.

She turned over an unknown amount of cash to the robber who was seen leaving the area in a black over gold Chevrolet Monte Carlo driven by a second man.

VIDEO EQUIPMENT STOLEN

Peter Michael Palazzetto, 35, of the 9300 block of Northwest 16th Place, told police someone stole $2,500 worth of video recording equipment from his car while it was parked in the 9700 block of North New River Canal Road last Sunday. Palazzetto said the equipment included a video recorder and camera. He said the car, a 1981 Corvette, sustained $200 damage when a cement block was thrown through a window to get at the items that were stolen.

JEWELRY STOLEN

Frances Cavalletti, 53, of the 500 block of North University Drive told police someone broke into her home between 6:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. last Sunday and stole nine items of jewelry valued at a total of $1,214.

EQUIPMENT STOLEN

Richard William Timmes, 35, told police someone broke into the home he is building in the 11600 block of Northwest 23rd Street and stole water purification and softening equipment valued at $1,900. Timmes, who lives in Pembroke Pines, said the theft occurred between 6 p.m. Jan. 5 and 9:30 a.m. last Sunday.

MOTORCYCLE STOLEN

Eric Andrew Ehrhardt, 21, of the 7600 block of Northwest Fifth Street, told police someone stole his 1984 Kawasaki motorcycle, valued at $4,500, while it was parked at his home between 9:30 p.m. Jan. 3 and 6:30 a.m. Jan. 4.

SCHEME VICTIM

A woman told police that two men stole $1,405 from her in a flimflam scheme Jan. 4.

After the men had taken $805 from her, they talked her into returning to her bank and withdrawing another $600, which they also took.

Susan M. Brown, 66, of the 3300 block of Northwest Seventh Court, Fort Lauderdale, told police a man approached her outside the Landmark Bank, in the 3800 block of West Broward Boulevard, immediately after she had cashed three checks totaling $805.

Brown said the man told her he had found an envelope containing $21,000 in stocks, bonds and cash. He asked her to drive him to a nearby department store so he could talk to his boss about his find.

Brown said a second man joined them for the short drive.

She said that when they arrived at the store, the first man told her he needed some money from her ``so his boss can match the serial numbers.``

She said she handed over the $805 and the man went into the store. The second man waited with her.

Brown told police the first man came out a short time later and said he needed more cash for his ``boss`` to look at. When Brown said she had no more money with her, they talked her into going back to the bank. There she withdrew another $600 and gave it to the first man. The three then drove back to the store and both men went inside. They told her to wait and they would be right back.

When they did not return in 30 minutes, Brown went in the store looking for them. She said she was not able to find them. She then called police.

JEWELRY STOLEN

Two pieces of jewelry, valued at a total of $5,750, were reported stolen from a house in the 1700 block of Southwest 54th Avenue. Owners of the items were listed as Kirk Paul Jubolewski, 13, and Christopher Hendrickson, 21. The theft was reported last Sunday but, according to the police report, occurred between Jan. 2 and 3. The missing items were a $5,500 gold ring and a $250 gold chain.

MAN ARRESTED

A police service aide who was having dinner at a local restaurant last Sunday night called officers who subsequently arrested a man who they said had been seen looking in cars parked at the eatery.